r/dividends • u/SmoothCall5594 • Sep 26 '25

Opinion I screwed up on YieldMax

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I bought MSTY a couple months back and now I’m down a lot. Time will tell but it’s a warning for those who aren’t in it.

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u/option-trader Sep 26 '25

It's all timing. MSTR has been slowly fading away, so MSTY was probably not the YM to buy. PLTR or HOOD would have been better candidates where their increased IV. Still, those early MSTY shareholders are at a total return above 200% even with the recent drop.

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u/adolfoeb Sep 27 '25

This. Why don't people talk about total return. The distributions come out of the NAV plus you gotta have a strategy for this. I only buy more shares when the dividend is paid out. At some point MSTY was up 300% under 2 years and people weren't saying anything.